There is science fiction and there is fantasy, and never the twain shall meet. At least, that is the silly notion adopted by so many SF writers, readers and reviewers.…Continue readingFantasy or SF? You decide
The genetic basis of the Were Creatures There is science fiction and there is fantasy, and never the twain shall meet. At least, that is the silly notion adopted by…Continue readingWerewolf DNA
It might have been thought that my entire advanced formal education, my university career, had been wasted because I hold an MSc in Molecular Biology but worked in an actual…Continue readingScience in fiction?
Oh, the stories waiting to be told… 28 magical paths begging to be walked, keeping in mind a quote from J. R. R. Tolkien: “It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going…Continue readingMagical paths
“These days we’re desperately trying to get more people to read (‘Please, read anything, here’s a YA novel by the Kardashians’) but in the 1800s, it was a different story,”…Continue readingIs reading fiction dangerous?
Science in fantasy novels is more accurate than in science fiction, Annalee Newitz postulates at io9. (See link below.) Image by Todd Lockwood from the cover of Marie Brennan’s Voyage…Continue readingFantasy, the new science?